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interior is laid out in a series of tableaux depicting scenes from the lives of his characters, while in the garden is the Swiss chalet which the author had imported to the grounds of his home at Gads Hill

This is not Isaac Newton's Woolsthorpe, but the village west of Grantham in rolling countryside right on the Leicestershire border; it has fine views of Belvoir Castle a mile away on its hill on the other

The former Corn Exchange of 1857 is on the left, obscuring the Market Hill Chapel of 1839.

This picture is taken from the area of Hudson's field, looking northwards to the hill of Old Sarum.

A mile north-west of here is the Dover's Hill viewpoint, where the famous Cotswold games were formerly held.

Not only does the ancient 'Jurassic Trackway' run on a north-south line to the east of the village towards Tilton-on-the Hill, but a Neolithic road from Leicester, eastwards towards Ingarsby, skirts the

The Zennor Quoit is a chambered tomb on a wind-blown hill. Seven stout boulders once supported a colossal slab roof, eighteen feet across. Sadly, it was desecrated by farmers.

Stirling Castle, sited on a precipitous hill 420 feet high, has been intimately bound up with the fortunes of Scotland from the 12th century until the union of the crowns in 1603.

Another view from Castle Hill, this time looking west. In the bottom left corner is the tramway that brought ball clay from Peters Marland to the station at Torrington (centre).

All Saints' Church stands proudly at the top of a sharp double bend and hill on the A607 road going towards Lincoln from Grantham.

The thatch-roofed house has a well-clipped hedge and a Chilean pine - or monkey-puzzle tree - grows in a garden further down the hill. The roadway is of stone; motor transport has not yet arrived.

The River Barle appears here little more than a placid stream, but in 1953 a devastating flood swept through Dulverton from the hills above, inundating the bridge and destroying the cottages at the far

Further west along Main Street, looking towards Lyme Regis, the plateau of Langdon Hill forms the skyline (centre). The cart is beside Rose Cottage and Foss Cottage (left).

An enigma to this day, the purpose of Silbury Hill remains a mystery. Local legend had it that in ages past King Sil was buried here on horseback.

At the time before the coming of the motor car in significant numbers, there were many roads like this in the Lake District, and life continued among the hills at the same leisurely pace as it had

All those cotton mills needed spun cotton, and this village, sitting right on the edge of the Peak District National Park, was once an important spinning centre.

The pebble and sandy beach provides views along the coast to Worthing pier; just a short distance inland are the grassy slopes of Highdown Hill, which has long been a popular recreational

At the top of the hill behind the trees stands the Territorial Army building and the town centre.

A nursemaid sits with her two charges enjoying the sun on Castle Hill. Behind, a seating area nestles in the remnants of some ancient building whose purpose is now unclear.

A picnic party in a meadow in the hamlet of Loweswater are enjoying the splendid view north up Crummock Water.The lower slopes of Grasmoor are prominent on the left, and the skyline is filled by

Parked cars dating from the 1960s fill the cobbled square at Grassington, the pretty Wharfedale village whose wealth was founded on lead mining in the nearby limestone hills.

This village prospered thanks to the quarries on Ham Hill, and the High Street has some fine 17th-century houses built in Ham stone.

Famously the second-highest point in Essex (the highest being a patch of undistinguished woodland in the parish of Langley), Langdon Hills certainly impressed the traveller Arthur Young.

St Mary's Church dominates the photograph from its well-treed setting, with to its right the sheer elevation of The Foss and Grove Hill by Habershon, and to its left the Speech Room tower and chapel fleché